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Purified soybean lecithin and the gum derived from soybean oil processing were heated separately in bulk at 125 to 200°C for 60 min, or at 175°C for 30, 60, 90 and 120 min, and the products were analyzed by thin-layer chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography. It was found that the noncholine phosphatides are preferentially degraded relative to phosphatidylcholine, and that these phosphatides are broken down in the order phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (PE)>phosphatidylinositol (PI)>phosphatidic acid (PA) with increasing temperature. At 175°C, the heating time required to degrade the noncholine phosphatides was between 30 and 60 min. Diglycerides were the principal products of thermalization at 77% of the total material, indicating that the 3-phosphoester linkage is the most heat-labile portion of the noncholine phosphatide molecules. Cleavage of the fatty acids from positions 1 and 2 of the phosphatides was minimal, as indicated by the relatively low amount of free fatty acids (8% of the total) when the lecithin was heated at 180°C for 90 min. The appearance of brown discoloration, characteristic of heated lecithin, coincided mainly with the decomposition of PE. |